Lancaster Milk Stout

Brewed by Lancaster Brewing Co.
Style: Sweet Stout
Lancaster, Pennsylvania USA

Bottle Pours a clear dark black. Small light tan head and spotty lacing. Sweet dark roasted aromas. Some chocolate as well. Flavors are similar, low bitterness. Smooth soft but a bit thin feel.

A nice sweet-stout. Thin mouthfeel, but the milkyness in the texture provides something different that was oddly suprising and pleasant. Roasty flavors that left a sweet taste behind. Not too bad at all.

Pours out black with a small and creamy brown head. Nice café mocha aroma with a shot of vanilla that carried over to the flavor. Weakness was in the mouthfeel. Could have had more body and creaminess. Otherwise, this was a satisfying sweet stout.

12oz. Weak tan head on a dark brown viscous brew. The nose is brownies, burnt marshmallows, and dark toast. I’m not much for the milky texture of this beer and the hint of sweetness left behind on the finish. I prefer a milk stout with a little more of a dry approach to the malt but this one is all around creamy. It becomes somewhat cloying by the end of the bottle.

Interesting brew. Lots of cobwebs and ashtray in the aroma. Very dark pour with a quickly disapearing, but bountiful, tan head. Flavor is kind of discombobulated. There is a lot of ashtray and roasted malts, lingering bitter coffee, plus a dollop of sweet stout lactose sugar. If they got rid of the sweetness this would be a great beer, but to me, it is too crowded.

pours dark with a thin light tan head, aroma of roasted malts, coffee, chocolate notes, and nuts. Flavor is sweet, coffee-like, chocolatey, and slightly hoppy bitter, good body, good brew.

Quite a nice beer, quite different from common offerings in American breweries. Reminds me the most of the U Fleku beer I had in Prague: a dark, yet relatively light beer, a refreshing amount of carbonation, roasty. A very nice balance, quite refreshing for such a dark beer, easy enough to drink a couple. Well done.

Pours with a frothy, slightly cream-consistency, light brown colored head that is initially two-fingers thick. The beer itself is an opaque black color. The aroma has a strong burnt grain note to it, as well as notes of deeply toasted grain, coffee, and a lightly sweet chocolate note. This beer has a solid aromatic roast character to it that is pretty darn pronounced.

The beer has a creamy, yet light consistency to it that serves as a great foil to the roast flavors. There is a light sweetness here, that perhaps would be a bit more apparent if the roast character was not so plentiful. It is interesting that this beer is so much more balanced in the taste than it was in the aroma. While the roast character is quite noticeable in the flavor, it is balanced pretty well by the palate fullness and the light sweetness. The beer finishes with a roasted coffee bean note that is lightly astringent and has a touch of a burnt grain-husk note. Up front and accentuated by the sweetness is a dark chocolate note.

This is a nice quaffable brew. I really like that this beer is not too sweet, some milk stouts (Mackeson’s comes to mind) are too balanced towards the sweet end, and then don’t even have the body to keep up with the sweetness. This beer tastes just lightly sweet, the lactose contributes character here but it is well in balance with the rest of the beer. Quite nice and a great rendition of the style!